Hakki Erdem Çıpa :: Faculty
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Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2007 |
Research Interests
History and historiography of the Ottoman Empire; dissident movements, rebellions, succession struggles; socioeconomic history of the Ottoman Empire; feudalism; agrarian societies of the late middle ages and the early modern era
Courses Recently Taught
- “Ottoman Istanbul: From Imperial Capital to Modern Metropolis,” Spring 2007.
- “Ten Sultans, One Empire: The Ottoman ‘Classical Age,’ 1300-1600,” Spring 2006.
- “Religion and Revolutions,” Spring 2006.
- “Introduction to Islamic Civilization,” Fall 2005 & Fall 2006.
Publication Highlights
“Bir Defterin Anlattıkları: I. Selim Döneminin İlk Mevacib Defteri (TSMA D.2921-1)” (Notes on the First Salary Register of Selim I’s Reign), Filiz Çagman Festschrift (forthcoming, 2007).
Review of Heath Lowry’s The Nature of the Early Ottoman State (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003), The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies (MIT-EJMES) (Spring 2006).
“Contextualizing Sheikh Bedreddin: Notes on Halil b. Ismail’s Menakıb-ı Şeyh Bedreddin b. Isra‘il,” Şinasi Tekin Anısına: Uygurlardan Osmanlıya / In Memory of Şinasi Tekin: From the Uygurs to the Ottomans (Istanbul: Simurg Publications, 2005): 285-295.
“McNeill’in ‘Salgınlar ve Halklar’ı Üzerine Düşünceler” (Ideas on McNeill’s ‘Plagues and Peoples’), Toplumsal Tarih (Social History), October 1995: 21-26.
Current Research Projects
- Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul, 2007-2008.
- Currently working on a book project tentatively entitled In the Name of Legitimacy: Social Rebellions and Succession Struggles in the Ottoman Empire.
